The Long Island Seed Project

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produce is derived from mass crosses, segregating F2 hybrids or are
seed mixes and unstable breeding lines which are primarily of interest
to the backyard seed breeder and garden experimenter who wants access
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Genus: Allium
Hardy/Half hardy biennial. Allium seed should be sown early indoors and
transplanted into the garden in spring. They are slow growers initially
and do not compete well with weeds. Most alliums are tolerant of a
light
frost. Leek and some scallions can over-winter (with protection in
severe winter climates) to provide seeds the following year. Some
scallions are perennial/dividing kinds and can produce multiple seed
crops. While some bulbing onions can survive mild winters mulched, most
should be over-wintered in a frost-free location (but cold) to be
replanted in the
next spring. Leeks can be root-cellared. Flowers are insect pollinated
so crossing within the same allium species can be rampant without
isolation. We continue to work with bulb onions which is a major crop for us.

Leek (Allium ampeloprasum)

MULTILINE CROSS-LI Hardy Leek Blend
We searched for leeks in Europe and found many distinct older cultivars. We planted these and wintered the hardiest over in the field then allowed them to cross. Some
of these
are rapid growers and just great for summer greens; all are nice winter storage varieties. There is quite a bit of diversity here. Long white shanks
are blanched when hilled or mulched as they grow in the field. Included is St. Victor and it's crosses that will develop a purple tinge to the foliage in cold weather. You may find some oddities as we do; those leeks that produce especiallly large and tender bulbs at the base (like elephant garlic) and an occasional leek that produces a mix of flowers and bulbils on the flower head. When we have more time both of these would be nice to isolate. (150
seeds)

Scallion, Onion Greens (Allium cepa
and Allium fistulosum )

BLEND-Long Island Scallion Mix
Mixture of green onions or scallions. Summer kinds as well as
perennials that have proven very winter hardy. Some may reseed for you,
some will keep dividing. Some are simply the "greens" of milder bulbing varieties. From our production. Not too diverse. We are hoping that some new kinds we have in the field will overwinter to produce more diversity in this mix for fall 2010. (200
seeds)

Bulb Onion Mix
Seeds from our bank of onion cultivars; many colors, sizes, hard and soft kinds, the emphasis on varieties suited for polar of 35° latitude although some day neutral types are here, only for experimentation. (200 seeds)

Family: Amaranthaceae (The Amaranth Family)

Genus: Amaranth

Annual. Some species self sow. Establish seedbeds by lightly scattering
seed in full sun in spring or plant out seedlings in early summer. Keep soil
moist until the young seedlings are up and established. After that they can
tolerate dry conditions.
Seeds will germinate when soil temperature is 60°F. Wind and also insect
pollination. Hybridization is well known but usually maintains it's
integrity as a species. Likes warmth. Cut seed-heads when seeds are
full and mature, lay on tarp in protected, dry area and allow to
shatter. We use screens and a breezy day to remove chaff from seed.

BLEND- LI Amaranth Grain Mix
Some of the variations you will find in this blend will allow you to
select for your own particular requirements. The principle grain
crop of the Aztecs, it has outstanding nutritional qualities.
These are all white seeded types and
produce great quantities of
grain given good growing conditions. Try popping some seed to serve with honey.&nbsp;
Some gardeners will grow these as a background plant in flower beds
because of the beauty of their large and sometimes colorful
inflorescence. We enjoy the ornamental value as well as the
edible quality as we work with this group. Many kinds including ancient
cultivars. (150 seeds)

Family: Apiaceae (The
Parsley
Family)

Genus: Apium

Celery is a Hardy/Half hardy biennial. Sow the seed early indoors and
transfer the plants out in spring. Slow growers at first, they require
care. Celery enjoys rich, moist soils. They are
tolerant of a light frost and can be over-wintered with protection such
as mulching or earth
mounding or may be stored in the root cellar. They will produce small flowers in
small umbellate clusters and copious seed. An easy seed crop. Insect
pollinated, all celery will cross with one another.

BLEND- Blanching Celery (Stalk Kinds) Mixed- usually hilled and blanched for tender stalks. Requires care in starting seed and a long period of growth until the plant becomes more resiliant. In a future project we will be crossing herb celery with salad celery for better home garden varieties. (100 seeds).

Herb Celery aka cutting celery, leaf celery (Apium graveolens)

BLEND-Herb Celery Mix
Bushy plants resemble parsley. A multitude of long medium sized stalks and many large leaves characterize this
group used for their aromatic leaves in soups and flavorful seed when wintered over as a biennial.
They have mild, chewy
stalks which are fine diced and used in salads like stalk celery. The leaves like parsley can be minced and added to fresh salads as well. Much easier to grow compared to stalk celery. We will be working with this group a lot in the future.
European and
asian cutting celerys are included in this mix. Next year we hope to be able to provide crosses. (100 seeds)

BLEND- Root Celery (Celeriac) Mix- used for the solid root which is sliced and boiled, roasted with other root vegetables or grated to use fresh. (100 seeds)

Genus: Daucus
Carrot (Daucus carota) Hardy
biennial. Sow in the spring in the open
ground. Tolerant of frosts. Roots can be harvested and root cellared
for replanting and seed crops or left in the ground and mulched
depending on climate to produce seed the next year. Insect pollinated. Easily crosses with wild
carrot (D. carota) which will reduce root quality.

BLEND-
Orange Carrot Standards
World's best carrots, orange color, some variety of shapes, variable
adaption to soil types and climate fresh eating, summer and fall
harvest, some winter storage kinds. Many different strains of Danvers,
Nantes, Chantenay, Kuroda, Oxheart and more. Select your best
roots to over-winter and plant out for seed the second year. This is
the diversity you need to find the best performing type for your soil
and growing conditions. I am surprised to see young carrot seedlings as microgreens used to flavor salads. (400 seeds)

MULTILINE CROSS- Long Island Early Color Mix
The objective of our breeding project was to cross many kinds of colorful carrots with the sweetest early maturing Nantes snacking types. This simple mass cross was quite a success and produced a dazzling display of snacking carrots that guests thought were quite tasty. We still have some seed from the initial mass cross and the F2 generation will be available in 2011. (200
seeds)

Genus: Foeniculum
Fennel is a hardy biennial or perennial which will produce seed the
first season if planted early.

BLEND- Fennel Cross
We have worked with the varieties from southern Europe which produce inflated leaf stem (petiole) bases sometimes
improperly called "bulbs" which are sliced and used raw or cooked as
one might use carrot strips. This year we allowed them to cross with our reseeding bed of herb fennel, which produce green, gray and bronze lacy foliage used to flavor greek dishes,sauces, and soups. There should be a lot of diversity here. Produced on Flanders Bay Farm.(100
seeds)

Genus: Anethum
Dill (Anethum graveolens)

HERB- Dill (CV- Long Island Mammoth)
Dill is a fast grower, it's feathery leaves are used to flavor dill
butter and added to salads, dips, baked fish and more, seeds known best
for the flavor imparted to pickles. We could not abstain to offer
the genuine Mammoth Dill which can indeed grow to several feet in
height. Long Island was one of the largest pickling centers in
America in the 1800's when hundreds of acres of cucumbers were brined
and dilled, then sent to markets in New York City and Boston.
There was the last of the large "pickle works" still operating in
Farmingdale when I was still a kid and I remember the wonderful aroma
of dill and vinegar that greeted you when you walked into the huge
wooden warehouse where the barrels of curing cukes were stacked
high. There have been reports that fennel and dill are so closely
related that they are capable of hybridizing. I haven't seen
that. LI Mammoth Dill is an easy seed crop for the home gardener or farm. (150 seeds)

Family: Asteraceae
(The Sunflower family)

Genus: Cynara

Tender perennial, treated as annual. Start early (Jan) from seed
indoors, transplant into 4" pots, expose to cold weather (40°) in
March/April to vernalize -produce flowers (but protect from very low
temperaures).
Plant in rich soil, black plastic mulch helps in accelerating growth in
spring. In hot summer, mulching and irrigation helps to cool roots and
prevent heat dormancy. Blossoms are insect pollinated and when flower
matures and dries on stalk harvest seeds. Roots must be protected
(below 20°F) for winter survival. Second year plants provide a
bigger harvests, spring buds and a better opportunity for maturing ripe
seed. Seeds of Cynara species will produce an interesting variable
population.

BLEND- Globe Artichoke Mix- as a service for breeders we have this blend from our seed bank; our climate doesn't permit us to do work with the artichokes (40 seeds)

BLEND- Cardoon Mix- as a service for breeders we have this blend from our seed bank; our climate doesn't permit us to do work with this group (40 seeds)

CV- Asparagus Lettuce (Celtuce)
Similar to Yu Mai with wider leaves and a stalk that becomes taller and
thicker and can be sripped of lower leaves, peeled and eaten as a
wonderful crispy salad treat. (100 seeds)

CV- Yu Mai Mix (Sword Lettuce)
The plants resemble the head of a palm with so many narrow, long
sword-like leaves emerging from the low central crunchy stalk. We
find these little lettuces mild and long lasting. There may also be wider leaved Asparagus kinds in this mix (100 seeds)

CV- Vanguard 75
Developed by USDA-Salinas, we received our start
from NOFA-NY who distributed it as a variety to evaluate for organic
systems as part of the Organic Seed Partnership. We've now grown
two different strains which are both very similar. Over the past
three years we've raised
enough seed to make it available to others. It easily forms big leafy
bright green heads but needs
irrigation on our
sandy soils for the best performance. A good Iceberg for organic
gardeners which has not shown disease or insect damage in the
field. (100 seeds)

HEIRLOOM- Tom Thumb
We enjoy these fit in your palm-sized single serving size
instant salads. Soft heads known for their buttery goodness and a
crispy heart are desirable traits as well as the ease of producing a
good crop. Kids love to make their own salads from the tiny heads.
Although seed is readily available, we produce our own quality seed
since it's so easy to do. A nice sustainable
variety for us. (200
seeds)

Asian Wraper Lettuce
A mix of red and green maer lettuce used especially where large leaves are
desired for holding and wrapping food. Might be good for low carb diets. Think
outside the bun. (100 seeds)

Herb Marigold
CV- Tagetes minuta
Tall upright marigold plant to 10 feet with very small flowers used as a soil disinfectant (said to reduce nematode populations in the soil) or as a deer and pest deterrant. It is aromatic used in the perfume industry and also as a culinary herb dating back to Incan use. Known as huacatay, a paste is used to flavor potato dishes in some parts of South America. The taste and odor of fresh Tagetes minuta is described as "a mixture of sweet basil, tarragon, mint and citrus". It is also used as a medicinal tea. Will not bloom until late fall; we pull plant to bring indoors and ripen seeds on the stalk before frost . (40 seeds)

Herb Chrysanthemum
CV- Garland Chrysanthemum
'Chrysanthemum coronarium'
also known as Edible Mum. This is an herbal or salad chrysanthemum from Eastern Asia. Very aromatic and flavorful. Fresh or dried flowers used makes a bitter tea; Considered a healthful addition to soups, stri-fry and addition to omelettes. Nice as an early salad microgreen. Pretty flowers. Our strain has thicker more succulent leaves than others we've grown. Easy seed crop.
. (30 seeds)

Family: Chenopodiaceae
(The Goosefoot Family)

Genus: Beta

Beets and Chard are usually biennial. In mild winter areas it is
possible to obtain seed by planting in summer, and allowing the plants
to over-winter; they will bolt to flower the following spring. In cold
climates, the plants must be mulched or dug before the ground freezes
hard and then stored to replant the following spring. Beet can be
planted in the spring and will survive light frosts. Beet and chard are
the same species. They easily cross and are wind pollinated.

BLEND- Beet Mix- a mixture of many varieties of beet; some variety in color and shape, some crosses produced on the farm. (200 seeds)

BLEND- Chard Mix- a mixture of many varieties of leaf beet or chard including the perpetual spinach kinds, rhubarb colors and a variety of green shades. (200 seeds)

Genus: Spinacia

SPINACH (Spinacia oleracea)
Hardy Annual.

HEIRLOOM- Sharp Seeded Spinach
We grow this variety mostly because of it's historical
significance. It was the spinach of Thomas Jefferson's
time. The seeds have prickly spines unlike most of today's
varieties. Gives us great pains to harvest seed! It is an easy
bolter in the spring and we have found
it far better when sown in fall for an early winter harvest or to
overwinter. Hardy.
(50 seeds)

BLEND- Spinach Mix- a mixture of many kinds of spinach from many sources. (200 seeds)

Family: Fabaceae (The Legume Family)

Vicia faba
FAVA BEAN

BLEND- Mixture of Fava Beans- diversity of the Fava Beans in a single packet (40 seeds)

Genus: Glycine

SOYBEAN, EDAMAME (Glycine max)

BLEND- Edamame Mix
Many kinds of soybeans to serve as Edamame (40 seeds)

Genus: Phaseolus

Beans are sensitive to cold temperatures and frost. They should be
planted after all danger of frost is past in the spring and soil
temperatures reach 60°F. Plant seeds of bush beans 2 to 4 inches
apart in rows 24 inches apart. Plant seeds of pole beans 4 to 6 inches
apart in rows 30 to 36 inches apart along a fence; or in hills around a
pole (four to six seeds per hill) 30 inches apart. Beans are mostly
self-pollinating so you should be able to save seed from particular
plants in the row. For seed crops, let the bean pods dry right on the
plant until late fall. If the climate has high humidity or your crop is
in danger of being blanketed by snow, pull the plants and hang them
upside down in a shed or other protected location with good air
circulation. When the pods are brittle dry you can shell them.

BLEND- Bush Garden Beans (round pod and flat pods)
We put together quite a selection of bush garden beans (dwarf french)
from many
sources including our own production of the more unusual kinds.
Look at each plant for the qualities that you admire and save the seed
of those that you like the most for replanting next season. Mostly
green, some yelllow (wax) and purple pod; all stringless kinds, very
good
quality pods. (100 seeds)

BLEND- Pole Bean Blend
The garden wouldn't be the same without climbing pole beans. The
diversity of this blend will delight you. Narrow and wide pods,
purples, yellows, greens and striped kinds. All of the varieties
have been selected for their good flavor and high yields. Harvest
the pods young and often for the best quality and extended
harvest. Provide poles or a fence to climb on. Make note of your
favorites so that you can target them especially for your future seed
crop. There are over a dozen varieties in this mix.(40
seeds)

BLEND- Garden Pea Blend
English peas, shell them and enjoy them. I can't help but
open the pods in the garden to nibble on the fresh, tender little green
peas. All wrinkled seeded and sweet. Vines can be self
supporting, less than 24" or a bit taller. This blend does not
contain the taller growing varieties. Once you save the seed from
this crop, next year's planting from your saved seeds will just get
better. (100
seeds)

BLEND- Snow Peas- Mixed- short and tall growing; these will require some support, when young their flat pods are edible. (100 seeds)

BLEND-Yard Long Bean
Blend- Climbing
These are a kind of cowpea (Vigna) that have been selected for their
long thin green
(or red-purple) beans in the Orient. They are of excellent flavor and tenderness when
harvested young (12-24" long) before pods swell with the developing
seed. These do very well on Long Island's sandy soils, better
when irrigated. Their productivity is greatest during the hot
summer days. Versitile, tender leaves can be cooked as a potherb, long and thin
tender green beans are good steamed or stir-fry (loop into knots and bows for culinary art) and seeds are protein
rich. Seed crops are easy to produce on Long Island and we
maintain about 10 different kinds.
(40 seeds)

CV- Yard Long Bean- Stickless Wonder
This is a small brown seeded kind that produces dwarf plants. I like this one from the orient a lot.
(40 seeds)

Family: Lamiaceae (mint family)
Basil (Ocimum basilicum)

HERB- Basil Blend
An impressive assortment of a dozen basils with surprising
scents, flavors and growh forms. The Italian pesto kinds
and other culinary favorites predominate but there will also be those
with citrus undertones and very spicy indian and asian kinds. (100
seeds)

Family: Malvaceae (The Mallow Family)

Okra (Abelmoschus esculentus)

BLEND- Northern Okra Mix
This summer our okra patch was nothing less than extrordinary.
We didn't have a problem producing bumper crops
even with the classic southern green heirlooms and red fruited
kinds. This is exciting since we were able to produce an
intentional mass
cross of a dozen varieties including very early Asian varieties.
This mix should provide ample genetics for new developments. Pretty
mallow flowers. (40
seeds)

CV- English Mallow
This is a small leafed pink flowering mallow which is considered to be a healthful salad herb or a "green" to toss into soups. The pods also called a "cheeses" because of the flat, round seed capsule are tossed into salad. Looks a bit weedy in the garden. Very sustainable crop. (40 seeds)

BLEND- Broccoli Blend
We produced the first broccoli blend for
gardeners in 1979 and
marketed it through Long Island Seed Company. It consisted of
early,
midseason and late kinds. Gardeners liked the idea but the
federal government didn't since I failed to list the specific
percentages of each variety in the packet by weight; the rest is
history. Now, it
seems that every seed company markets a broccoli blend! This
experimental blend includes some unusual kinds. There are well over a
dozen kinds including some hybrids. (40 seeds)

BLEND- Brussels Sprouts Blend
We found a treasure trove of sprout varieties including heirlooms and
hybrids and have assembled a
blend which even includes some purple types mostly as a curiosity (not
known for being very productive). Find the ones that
do the best for you, eat some of the sprouts if you wish and root
cellar the plants to over-winter and set out for seed production the
next year. See what you can develop if you want. (50
seeds)

Cabbage (Brassica oleracea)
Hardy/Half Hardy biennial.

BLEND- Complete Cabbage
Blend
Cabbages of all kinds, early, mid and late, red and green,
savoyed and plain leaves, pointed and drumhead. They're all here- have
fun! Sow some seed early, some seed in mid-summer. Over winter
your very best and grow them out for seed in the
second year. (100 seeds)

Collards (Brassica oleracea)
Hardy biennial.

COLLARDS

BLEND- FBF Collard Cross
New for 2011 is a mass cross of leaf cabbages with good
flavor and tenderness
characteristics. These are nice early on when very young and then again
when the cooler frosty weather sets in and they become sweet. A pot of collard greens
with ham
and warm cornbread on a cold fall day is pure pleasure even for a
northerner
like me. Interesting material including some southern european
"leaf cabbages" and also "greasy" wax leaf kinds. (60
seeds)

BLEND- FBF Kale Crosses
This is a mixture of kale crosses that we produced from many kinds, tall and compact plants, many colors and growth forms
including some that are considered so beautiful as to be considered
ornamental. All edible and particularly so, after frost. A
traditional
winter meal of boiled kale and potatoes turns into a feast when the
leftovers are chopped and spiced up a bit, then fried up in a
butter/olive oil blend like
one would prepare hash browns.
(50 seeds)

CV: De Lustof Kale
Lieven David sent me seed of what he calls a "Fodder Kale", the kind of kale that is grown mostlly for livestock, chickens love these kinds of greens when there isn't much else to forage. Lieven is a backyard plant breeder in Belgium. He explained, "My fodder kale story is like this: two plants emerged on my field 4 years ago. My only reasonable explanation, after eliminating all other options: some bird must have sown them. These kales grew 1 m tall, and they had white flowers. They may have come from some OP or F1 somewhere, but then there weren't any fodder kale seed crops nearby. Anyway, these two plants produced a nice load of seeds. The next generation turned out to be exactly the same...quite a lot of Lusthof customers are growing this fodder kale, and perhaps saving seeds." . Interesting! The white flowers mentioned by Lievon indicate a Brassica alboglabra or white flowered Asian Kale. I am curious if this is an Asian/European cross since B. oleracea (yellow flowered European Kales) will cross with B. alboglabra-Gailon (taxonomists; in fact, consider these to be the same species). White flowers seem dominant in crosses I have made. Plants grow very large and produce a plant much like a collard. The greens are suitable to use like collards. These are original breeder seeds. (50 seeds)

BLEND-Chinese Heading/Semi-Heading Cabbage Mix
We were happy to discover these great
barrel, round or cylindric head cabbages with fairly compact
self-blanching hearts. Shred for slaw or stir-fry. Discover their
versatility. We have over a dozen cultivars that we
mix for you to experiment with and we do mean experiment. You
will have to determine the cultural practices that allow you to bring
these to the best quality. Many kinds will bolt unless grown as a
quick crop under the cooler days before frost, few will succeed in
summer heat. Is there one kind in your diverse planting that does
well for you; then, separate it out to produce seeds.(100
seeds)

BLEND-Mustard Greens Mix
A collection of mild to spicy greens from Asia as well as the US South,
where cold tolerant mustard greens (and purples) provide a welcome easy
to grow "greens" through the
year. Somewhere between asian cabbages and turnip greens.
Its difficult to draw
the line since cabbages, pak choi, bok choi, mustard lettuce, mustards
and turnip greens and raab are all related. It all gets blurred
when you
realize that there are hundreds of these interesting greens utilized in
central and eastern
Asia for a variety of dishes and we're just beginning to realize that
mustard is no longer just "Southern Curled". This blend consists
mostly of leafy kinds fine in soup or salad, boiled or steamed, layered
in a sandwich with tomato, etc. We don't include the pak choi nor bok choi kinds with fleshy leaf petiole bases.(100
seeds)

Turnip aka Summer Turnip (Brassica
rapa)
Half hardy biennial.

BLEND-Summer Turnip Blend
A assortment of small, quick growing turnips that produce tender,
mostly white or yellowish round roots but also pink topped kinds and
red ones and a few odd shapes. Some of these are considered very
mild and sweet when
harvested in 30 days and make better eating than salad radishes. Others
take more time to
size up. They are used fresh and in soups, cooked
with their "greens", and stir fried. The "greens" are
considered choice. (100 seeds)

Bok Choy aka Pak Choi, Chinese Mustard (Brassica rapa)
Hardy Annual.

BLEND- Pak Choi Mix
Pak Choi and some related similar kinds that are grown for their
succulent white and green petioles and leafy tops; compact and tall
forms. We have collected dozens of pak choi and similar kinds of
oriental
petiole mustards over the years. Here is an interesting blend in
which you are apt to find some especially suited to your stir fry
needs. Generally quick and easy to grow especially as a
spring/early summer crop. (100 seeds)

Rutabaga aka Swede Turnip, Fall Turnip (Brassica napus)

FBF Rutabaga Crosses
The large sweet turnips (also called "swede turnips") gathered in the
fall and stored through the
winter are a great favorite for Thanksgiving feasts, not summer turnips
which are a different species. Great when boiled and then
mashed with a bit of butter and served alongside or with mashed
potatoes or cubed in
winter soups
and stews. We had a number of nice varieties in our seed bank
which we allowed to cross. We produced a small seed crop in 2010 in order to create a more diverse gene
pool. Enjoy. (100 seeds)

Genus: Raphavus

Radish (Raphavus sativus)
Half Hardy Annual/biennial.

May bolt and produce seed first year, roots
of some varieties will not survive below 20°F freeze and must be
wintered over in root cellar or some other way. Insect pollinated, will
cross. When pods are inflated with seed, pull and lay on tarp, keep
dry; over time, allow pods to become very dry and brittle to crush
finely and process seed which will fall out and settle to the bottom of
the chaff.
We are working with smooth leaf radishes to release at some later time. We are offering two seed mixtures this year.

BLEND- Early Mixed Radishes (100 seeds)

BLEND- Late Asian Radishes (100 seeds)

Family: Poaceae (The Grass Family)

CORN (Zea
mays)
Tender Annual. Wind pollinated, all Zea mays will easily cross if
shedding pollen at the same time. We have been working to develop some wonderful diverse sweet corn mixes for your breeding work but our problems with persistant raccoons make offering seed slim until we get a new fence up.

Corn- Decorative Foliage
Types

CV- Old Gold Stripe
A truly great corn developed from Old Gold, a great corn that came to us via the Maize Genetics
Cooperation Stock Center. This is a field corn, mostly dent which
produces large ears of cattle corn. Leaves are green with bright
gold stripes. Can grow 5-6 feet tall. Rouge out plants that don't have the expected
coloration before their tassels produce pollen that will deteriorate
the quality of the others if allowed to cross. Limited. (60 seeds)

Corn- Popcorn

SELECT: FBF Autumn Delight
Full sized popcorn kernels on a full size 8" cob and in a variety of
autumn colors. Developed at FBF primarily as a popcorn of good
quality and expansion ratio as well as an ornamental and festive
"Indian Corn", a decorative variety of long-lasting flint corn for
Thanksgiving Holiday decor. Tall sturdy stalks. Shows
promise as an early and productive kind which resists borers. Developed on Flanders Bay Farm. (60 seeds)

Sorghum

Sweet Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor)

HEIRLOOM BLEND- Sweet
Sorghum Blend
An assortment of sorghums which
produce tall grassy stalks similar to sweet corn. Start the seed in small blocks in a protected area to transplant when an inch or so high for a better stand in the field. Use
as a background and
in the fall there will be seed heads in colors in shades of cream,
rusty reds, tan and black that will last into late fall. Very
nice for fall decoration and bird
feed on the stalk. Late in the season (100 days), the
sugary juices accumulate in the stems like sugar cane around mid October. A pleasant snack to chew on or
crush to
produce syrup. Folks around here are always surprised
to try chewing on the stalks. Our blend has been selected for
high
sugar stalks as well as decorative seed-heads. Many varieties of
historic
importance. (60
seeds)

Family: Cucurbitaceae (The Melon and Squash Family)

CUCUMBERS (Cucumis sativus)

Cucumber- Kirby (Pickle)

MASS CROSS- FBF Pickle Cucumber
More than a dozen varieties of small kirby
size cucumbers used for salads or whole pickles were mass crossed and
and selected at Flanders Bay Farm. Both white and black spined varieties were used in the
cross, all green skin color. (30 seeds)

Cucumber- Slicer

MASS CROSS- FBF Slicing Cucumber
These are medium to large long cucumbers
that are mostly used as slicers. More than a dozen standard sized
cukes were crossed and then selected at Flanders Bay Farm. These are fine for ground culture especially with drip
irrigation. (30
seeds)

BLEND- Mixed Cucumbers-All Kinds (we have dozens of cucumbers that we use in our breeding program and these are seeds from out bank)(40
seeds)

Cucumber- White

SELECTIONS- Touch of Gold
Selections from the
Cornell cross: Boothby x Marketmore made to impart greater
disease
resistance in Boothby, a small creamy white heirloom cuke. Seed
production at Flanders Bay Farm is the result of the Organic Seed
Partnership (OSP) which encouraged the development of varieties bred
and selected for organic systems. You may want to eliminate any
plants producing non white fruit and
select for white cukes (black spine) or harvest the light green-
yellowish fruits
that sometimes appear and which are quite refreshing. Limited
(30 seeds)

CV- Long Asian White OP
This is our open pollinated
selection of an Asian long white (white spine) hybrid. Selected for
long bright
white
fruits, slight taper or neck at stem end. Sample
(20 seeds)

Mexican Sour Gherkin (Melothria scabra)

CV- Mexican Sour Gherkin
This is now the fourth year that we have produced a crop of the tiny
grape-sized gherkins. Tangy and crunchy when they fall to the
ground from their vines, a bit sweeter when harvested before
drop. Some folks like these others don't care for the slight
bitterness and chewy skins. We think they're a nice addition to
salads along with cherry tomatoes. Vines are
thread-like but grow in a vigorous sprawl over anything they can
climb.
(20 seeds).

Gherkin (Cucumis anguria)

CV- West India Gherkin
Roundish soft spined fruit look a bit like hedgehogs are best an
inch or so in size. They are a curiosity to those who never grew
them but were one of the most common pickles a century ago. Fine
fresh eating, even better when pickled whole.
Productive vines sprawl over the ground. Always a hit at the
farmstand. Easy seed crop to produce and won't cross with melons
or cucumbers! (30 seeds).

CANTALOUPE & MUSKMELON (Cucumis
melo )

BLEND- Muskmelons
A very diverse blend of dozens
of cantaloupe / muskmelons. Mostly conventional orange
fleshed but also a green fleshed kinds. Netted skins mostly. Heirlooms, new developments and experimental
crosses. Many of the best. There is a lot here to select
from. (30
seeds)

SELECTIONS- OSP Golden Charentais
Selections from a Cornell
cross between a powdery mildew resistant Charentais and the american
melon, Golden Gopher. The selections are still rough and we have introduced more charentais lines in a backcross. We'll
continue to work on perfecting this and invite you
to help by sending us a few seeds of any outstanding tasting melon that
you raise from this seed. Seed of the original cross was made
available through
the courtesy of the Cornell-Nofa-NY Organic Seed Partnership to develop
varieties for organic systems. (20 seeds)

CV- Delicious 51
An old development from
Cornell grown along with a new release of the popular melon which imparts more disease resistance. Cornell added powdery mildew
resistance to Delicious 51 many years ago but the seed wasn't brought
into commerce until interest in the organic farming community prompted
a few small seed producers to raise a seed crop. Once again
demonstrating the need to reginalize small seed production and get some
of the great varieties sitting on breeder's shelves out into the
farming community. Sweet, thick aromatic orange flesh, moderate
netted 2-3 lb.
fruit are produced early. Our mix is a cross of the old and new so shares some powdery mildew resistance. (30 seeds)

BLEND-Italian Cross Cantaloupe
These are cantaloupes
grown by our Italian neighbors in Deer Park, NY who brought the seeds
over from near Parma, Italy. Variable, medium large netted, moderately
ribbed melons with orange aromatic flesh and excellent flavor. We added stable,
similar disease resistant cultivars from Italy to cross, which will
produce some spontaneous F1's, extra vigor and disease resisance in the
future. (30 seeds)

BLEND- Oriental Melon (Cucumis melo )
Our collection of a number of sweet oriental "pear" melons. These have
thin
edible golden skin sometimes with delicate silver stripes. The crisp
white flesh is like as asian pear and makes a nice addition to fruit
salads. These are early producers of palm
sized oval fruit. One variety of Oriental Melon was sold as "apple pie
melon" by an enterprising seed company in the 1800's and used just like
sliced apples in a crust. (20 seeds)

BLEND- Exotic Melon Blend
Only somewhat exotic, these
are crenshaw, honeydew, casaba and a number of other kinds that don't
fit your normal definition of "cantaloupe" and are more familiar to
gardeners in the warmer southwest. There are also some
interesting crosses that have been made in order to develop more
regional lines.
Can't grow the "exotic" melons? Don't be so sure. Start
them
early in peat pots if you have doubts. There
will probably be something in our blend that works for you! (30 seeds)

Genus: Citrullus
WATERMELON (Citrullus lanatus)

BLEND- Watermelon
An assortment of culivars from our seed bank; find out what works for you. (30 seeds)

CROSS: Yellow Fleshed Watermelon
Blend
Crosses of the most vigorous cream to yellow to orange watermelons
in our seed bank made during the summer of 2010.
Mostly early to midseason kinds; very diverse, all sweet, nice kinds. (30 seeds)

MASS CROSS-Early Moon and Stars Icebox
In 2009 we grew a dozen small, early dark green to black early sweet ice box watermelons and crossed them to the heirloom melon, Moon and Stars. These are all seeds from the female solid green/black icebox melons. Pull out those seedlings (after a few weeks when you are sure the leaves do not display the yellow spots) that do not have the moon and star trait and you will be rewarded with F1 Moon and Star type fruit and we hope a better quality Moon and Stars. Your F2 generation will be even more fun. Curtis Slyvester Showell traded seed with us in the 1980's and sent us a wonderful icebox type Moon and Stars which we lost and this is out attempt to recreate it.(30 seeds)

Genus: Cucurbita
Tender Annual. Allow fruit to develop a hard gourd-like exterior before
harvesting for seed. Winter squash are usually harvested at full-ripe
stage, summer (immature) squash must be left on the vines to ripen
fully. Insect pollinated. Members of the same species will cross.

SQUASH AND PUMPKIN FAMILY Cucurbita spp

SUMMER MOSCHATA SQUASH (Cucurbita
Moschata)

BLEND-Summer Moschata
In Asia, Europe and South America these
moschata squash were selected for eating at their tender immature
stages. Prepare them as any summer squash. Less "watery",
nutty and sweeter than zucchini according to most people but not as suited for the small garden since these are vining plants. Commercially, people don't know this kind of summer squash so acceptance is not there yet. Summer
Moschata types will
mature into fruit similar to butternut or a calabazza type squash in a variety of shapes
(long, round, bell)
and color patterns (tans and mottled greens mostly) which are in same
genus. Very diverse. We may be able to supply separate shapes.
Enjoy. (20
seeds)

SUMMER SQUASH (Cucurbita pepo)

Squash- Summer- Pepo- Bush
Zucchini Mix

BLEND- Colorful Long Zucchini Mix A blend of many kinds of zukes from pale green mid eastern zucchini, striped
romanesco types to dark green and even golden zucchini which will produce
a nice diversity; these are open pollinated types of the parent
varieties we use in our breeding program. Mostly compact growth that
produces the traditional longer fruit. This will please the zucchini
connoisseur in everyone. Zucchini diversity in a single packet. (30
seeds)

Squash- Summer- Pepo- Bush
White/Cream/Lime Green Zucchini

F2 CROSS/ BLEND- White Zucchini Mass
Cross
Mass cross and second generation hand crosses
between various long white zuchini made during our evaluations of white
(pale green) zucchini. These are very productive, mild kinds, favored
for their nutty flavor and solid flesh. (20
seeds)

BLEND- Summer
Yellow Squash
Old
time
straightneck and crooknecks favored in the southern U.S., also some
productive round and oval kinds, dark yellows, creamy yellow, a
possible minor
amount of green will appear since some of these are F2 yellows and have
some green ancestry. Mostly bush type growth. (20 seeds)

C. pepo
Summer Squash-Zucchini- OSP Series (PM Success x Romanesco)

SELECTIONS- OSP Sprawling Greens
The best of the sprawling plants from a selection of Cornell Prolific
Zucchini
(Success PM x Romanesco) crossed with various green and dark green
zucchini. There will be
a great variation in fruit color and even shape. Yellows, light
and dark greens as well as solids and stripes will appear. There
is a better than 50% chance that plants in this mix of crosses will
have the sprawling characteristic where the main bush extends harvest
by sending out one or more long vines. Developed through the
Organic Seed Partnership to develop new varieties for organic systems,
a collaboration between NOFA-NY and Cornell University.Shows some powdery mildew resistance. These are just great.(20
seeds)

SELECTIONS- OSP Sprawling Whites
The best of the sprawling plants from a selection of Cornell Prolific
Zucchini
(Success PM x Romanesco) crossed with various white, mid eastern type
zucchini. There will be
a great variation in fruit color with a tendency to the lighter colors and even shape. There
is a better than 50% chance that plants in this mix of crosses will
have the sprawling characteristic where the main bush extends harvest
by sending out one or more long vines. Many people say that the fruit tastes better than conventional zukes. (20 seeds)

OSP Yellow Stiped and Chartreuse

Developed from the Cornell Cross (Success PM x Romanesco), this is probably one of the more diverse mixtures of zucchini. Colors are typically yellow with white or green stripes or some transition shades like chartreuse. Not selected for the sprawling habit but those genetics are certainly in the mix. (20 seeds)
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C. pepo
Summer Squash-Zucchini- OSP Series (PM Caserta x Romanesco)

SELECTION- OSP
Super Caserta (Shades of Green)
A very vigorous bush
producing beautiful light and dark greens, mostly with striped
pattern. This is a cross of a selection
from an unreleased Cornell PM Caserta and Romanesco made for the
organic farming community. Adds powdery mildew
resistance and my old favorite Italian squash Caserta (an improved
Cocozelle). A
farm-bred line and a result of the Organic Seed
Partnership. Similar striped fruit and
higher than average productivity. Select your best for seed. Very
diverse providing lots to work with in your own
breeding program. (20
seeds)

SELECTIONS- OSP Super Bianco
Bush habit. This is a cross of Cornell Super Caserta (PM Caserta x
Romanesco) with a long creamy light green mid-eastern kind of
zucchini known for it's fine flavor. Expect a generation of
various greens and stripes with subsequent generations of genetic
segregation and interesting whites and creams.
(20 seeds)

SELECTIONS- Zephyr Cross

Johnny's Seeds popular Zephyr Summer Squash is the source of this amazing diversity. I would never have guessed the diversity that you get by saving seeds of this summer squash hybrid for a generation and then crossing it with various zucchini squash. Great fun to play with and very fine eating too. You have got to try this if you enjoy adventurous gardening. (30 seeds)

C.
pepo
Squash- Summer Squash- Pepo- Bush
Round Summer Squash

MULTILINE CROSS/BLEND- Orbit Round
Zucchini
A complete mix of productive
round to oblong zucchini in a variety of colors, light green, dark
green and yellow in solid colors and also with mottles, blotches and
stripes of contrasting color. Discover round zucchini beyond
Eight Ball. Market growers should select for better uniformity in
shape according to their customer preferences. Harvest at less
than tennis ball size for best quality. Ping pong sized fruit
bring best "gourmet" prices. Mostly compact to
sprawling bush, farm bred at Flanders Bay Farm. We may be able to supply a specific parent color on request.
(25
seeds)

MULTI-LINE
CROSS/BLEND-Asteroids Scallop
Start
with bright white, cream, light yellow, dark yellow, dark green, light
green scallop squash, cross and select over several years and what do
you get- Asteroids! Includes a wide spectrum of colors. Most flattened and scalloped but also flat rounded to
inflated round kinds. Use these when they are less than tennis
ball size for the best quality. We continue to refine selections
from this blend for release as specific varieties in the future. We may be able to supply a specific color parent for your breeding program on request.
Mostly compact to sprawling bush.(25 seeds)

C.
pepo
Squash- Summer Squash- Pepo- Vining
Vining Zucchini

BLEND/F1, F2 CROSSES-Trailing Summer
Squash Crosses (vining)
This is a vining summer squash mixture that will produce different
shapes and sizes and some increased variation in color and
productivity. Includes Long Green Trailing and Table Dainty F1 and F2
crosses with a number of other summer squash mostly with bush habit
such as Black Beauty Zucchini. These are experimental hand
crosses. Shades of green mostly. F1 generation of some vining crosses
will be bush since vining in this group is largely a recessive
character. F2 generation should produce considerable
variation including many viners. (20 seeds)

ENGLISH HEIRLOOM- Long
Green Black Trailing
(vining)
This is an
English Marrow; large, heavy, generally dark green squash which
can be harvested young such as zucchini or allowed to mature more and
baked in the tradition of a marrow at which time fruit is greenish
black. Rampant vines prefer rich
soil and good growing conditions. (10 seeds)

ENGLISH HEIRLOOM- Table Dainty Squash
(vining)
An English Marrow,
smaller green and white striped, smooth, cylindric fruits on vigorous
vines. Harvest young like zucchini, bake with olive oil, cheese
and bread crumbs while the skin is tender. (10 seeds).

NATIVE- Tatume Summer Squash (vining)
Slightly oval green medium sized
pumpkin-like squash (turns orange at maturity) is harvested young and
it prepared as any summer squash. Many prefer Tatume over
conventional zucchini. Makes large 5" diameter slices for
grilling. This is a Mexican squash which
was popular in the southwest before commercial sources stopped
marketing it in the U.S. Tatume is of interest because it is more
tolerant of drought and heat. Small vines root at each node
tapping limited resources and making it difficult for squash borers to take the plant down.(10
seeds)

F1 CROSS- Little Gem x Tatume (vining)
A nice flavorful and productive summer squash bigger than the South African Gem Squash and
combining the best of two frugal squash varieties. An outstanding
development that may be well suited to difficult agricultural locations. (10 seeds)

Blend F2 -Tatume Crosses (vining)
We made crosses with Tatume as one parent and and several
bush zucchini summer squash are the other parent; Tatume x (Caserta,
Dark Green, Bianca, Yellow and others) and then selfed the F1's.
Expect quite a bit of
variation and the potential to develop the ultimate disease, insect and
drought resisant zucchini. Tatume is acclaimed for it's resiliant
nature which makes it a nice squash for organic systems. F1's had
long zucchini shapes, nice colors and patterns and bush
habit but should segregate to produce Tatume-like ovals as well as vine
characteristics in this F2 mix. Remember, this is an F2 and you
can expect a lot of variation. We are quite excited about this
mix. Separate phenotypes in photo are available. Inquire.(10 seeds)

Fall/ Winter Squash- Various Cucurbita Species

Squash- Winter- C. maxima- Hubbard

MASS CROSS-
Miniature Hubbard
Color Blend
We have been working with
Hubbard Squashes in shades of blue-gray, pink-orange and
green-black for quite some time. They should produce mostly the
characteristic bumpy
football shapes in a magnificent color range and mostly in the
5-10 pound range; many the results of
de-hybridizing and crosses. This has proved to be unstable
and variable in size and shape but has resulted in fine flesh
characteristics. We may be able to provide a specific color and size since we keep phenotypes separate. (25
seeds)

Squash- Winter- C. maxima-
Kabocha Type (Round Pumpkins)

BLEND- Kabocha MixCulinary squash that are staples in Asia and Austrailia
and now
quite well known in the U.S. because of Rob Johnson of Johnny's Seeds
who introduced many of us to this fine squash and made it better
through his breeding efforts. Slightly flattened round squash in
shades of green, gray
and orange, mostly buttercup
quality with very little or no button or cup (similar to Sweet
Mamma). All small and medium
sizes. (20 seeds)

Squash- Winter- C. Moschata
Butternut and Neck Pumpkin

CROSS- Ultra x Neck Pumpkin
We are out of the Ultra F2 shown in the photograph but we have it's genetics in this mix of mostly huge cylindric light tan butternut-like squash often with necks and sometimes with bulbous bases. Expect amazing variation in fruit since this is
third generation and backcrossed. Sweet solid orange flesh, excellent for pies,
soup, roasting. Our local baker of pies (Wally Krieg in Hampton Bays, NY) finds this cross the finest for his pumpkin filling and easier to work with than the L.I. Cheese.(30
seeds)

Squash- Winter- C. Pepo
Acorn Squash

Mix/ F2/F3 - Acorn
Gene Pool
Bush and vining kinds, mostly
selfs of F2's
and F3's and OP's grown out from a mass cross of many breeding lines
with the objective of developing stable
varieties. You can get a sense of the variation in this mix from
the
photo on our Acorn Squash "Rambling". We may be able to provide specific kinds from the photo since we keep lines for each phenotype separate. Let us know what you are looking for. Always expect a percentage
of
oddities.
Selected for disease resistance, flavor and diversity of skin color. (25
seeds).

Squash- Winter- C. pepo
Delicata Squash

BLEND- Delicata Squash Mix
Delightful small
elongate squash which look a bit like a plump over-ripe cucumber.
They are typically striped white and green perhaps turning tan and
orange with age, some variation in color. They are really very
closely
related to an acorn squash and you'll notice similarities. The
best
fruit matures
to have sweet and nutty orange interior which bake into a custardy
smoothness. Sometimes known as sweet potato squash. There
are a
number of breeding lines included here.(30 seeds)

CV-Long Island Delicata
Small striped white and green turning tan with age, some variation in color. This is our selection which we have maintained for 20 years but have never released. It is nutty but not sweet and bakes up like custard. Eat it all.(20 seeds)
Squash- Winter- C. pepo
Spaghetti Squash

BLEND- Spaghetti Squash
Several breeding lines, all
stringy spaghetti squash that can be used accordingly.
Various sizes, cream, tan and orange skins, oval, smooth and
pumpkin-like. It would be easy to develop from this mix a small
ornamental egg shaped gourd for painting (smooth skin) with the added
value of a microwavable vegetable spaghetti when the art work is
complete. Included is our "sweet acorn spaghetti F2". (20
seeds)

Pumpkins (various species)

Pumpkin- C. Maxima

BLEND- Medium
Pumpkins: Maxima Mix
A blend of F1 and F2 hybrids
between several maxima pumpkins that will produce pumpkins of
various sizes, small to medium size, and varying degrees of
roundness; round whites as well as some interesting off kinds
such as grays
and salmons.
Parents are known for their good baking quality. There may
be a minor amount of Buttercup and Turk's Turban crossing in
this mix which is intentional. If you see an odd variation of
fruit
with a large button we would like to have some seed returned since we
are looking to increase the diversity of turban squash (see
below). (15 seeds)

HEIRLOOM- Turks Turban Mix
Ornamental,
large orange squash with buttons of white often
streaked with green. Very pretty buttercup like squash with fair
eating
quality. We grew Turk's Turban in close proximity to our small
white maxima pumpkins and also crossed them with outstanding kabocha
kinds. If you see what appears to be the
result of such crossing, turban kinds that differ from the usual Turk's
you should save the seed. We would appreciate it if you would
send us
a few seed. (15 seeds)

Pumpkin- C. Moschata
Cheese Pumplins

HEIRLOOM- Long Island Cheese
Selected for medium large size fruit with shallow to
moderate
ribbing, light tan skin. Although of good quality for pies, most
people enjoy these as a decorative fall squash. Developed as a
commercial variety from a number of farm selections obtained on Long
Island many years after the cheese pumpkin was dropped from commerce
and farmers had begun to make their own selections. (20 seeds)

CV- French Cheese aka Fairytale,
Muscade de Provence
A heavy tan cheese pumpkin with very prominant
ribbing. This selection matures to a solid tan with chestnut
overtones. (15
seeds)

Mass Cross- Cheese Pumpkin Mass Cross
This is a new project we embarked on last summer when we allowed
several breeding lines of Cheese Pumpkins to cross. Included are
various sizes, mostly tan kinds including American heirlooms, the South
America Calabazza, little Japanese Ridged Cheese and the French Cheese
types. All round and
flattened cheese shapes. Terrific material to start your own
breeding program. You may want to select for thickness of flesh, deep orange color, earliness, roundness, fall decoration...it is all here. These will be a blend of OP's and F1
hybrids. (15
seeds)

Pumpkin- C. Pepo
Naked Seed Pumpkins

MASS CROSS-Naked Seed Pumpkin Blend
This is an experimental blend and also very diverse from the breeding program
at Flanders Bay Farm where we maintain over a dozen breeding lines of
naked seed pumpkins. The size of these pumpkins vary from less
than a pound to more than ten pounds with green stripes like Styrian to
solid orange and with variable flesh types, mostly inedible. The
seed is varied in size with various degrees of reduced testa. The seeds are a
wonderful snack. Caution: like most our what we make available, expect odd shapes and varied seed quality; (30
seeds)

SELECTION- Little
Greenseed
This stout-handled little
pumpkin has Baby Pam in it's pedigree. The 3-4 pound pumpkins
have light orange flecked skin which is tough and resistant to fruit
rotting. The interior is loaded with edible hulless seeds which
are dark green in color, plump and more flavorful that those "naked seed" pumpkins that have residual shells. "Little Greenseed" may become your favorite snackseed pumpkin. We grew a large seed crop in 2010 which showed very good uniformiuty. Developed on Flanders Bay Farm.(20
seeds)

Pumpkin- C. Pepo
Miniature Ornamental Edible

SELECTIONS/BLEND- Ornamental
Edible Miniatures
A blend of F2's and F3's from liseed project selfed to begin
developing stabilized varieties in the future. Long Island Seed
Project has been working with the genetics of Baby Boo, Sweet Dumpling
and Jack-Be-Little for several years to produce a very diverse mixture
of miniature pumpkins under a pound each. While they tend to be
larger than Baby Boo some will have more of a dumpling shape, others
resemble Jack-Be-Little. All edible, some very sweet and
"choice". You will have to select for the characteristics you
find most pleasing. Expect some oddities and off kinds. We keep all the lines separate so if you have a preference for something specific let us know. (15 seeds)

GHOST PUMPKIN MIX- Cotton Candy x Baby Boo
F2, F3 We released "Ghost" several years ago; the F1 hybrid but we have moved on to the more recent generations...you will have to make your own cross if you want the original "Ghost"! What we offer here is
a mixture of small and mid-sized white pepo pumpkins
should result in some very interesting and novel developments.
These were mostly selfed to start the process of producing stabilized
varieties. Bush and vining characteristics, expect a percentage
of oddities. (10
seeds)

Pumpkin- C. pepo
Various Halloween Pumpkins

F2 SELECTION- Bumpy Orange
Pumpkin
Start with the White Acorn Cross and add a very sweet warty round
orange heirloom. We have hopes that an Orange Acorn Cross will someday
stabilize into a beautiful and unique Halloween Pumpkin. You can help.
Save seeds of the best for your next crop. Edible quality. (20 seeds).

SELECT BLEND: Edible
Pumpkin/Gourds Mix
Includes: F2 Crosses and all ready to give rise to diversity.
Althought we placed photographs of the F1 parents below, you may not
get offspring that bear too much resemblance to the photograph.
Dark Wings, Warty Striped Pear, Dark Green Pumpkin, Round
Gold, Round Moss Green, Oval Green Stripe, Orange Stripe Pumpkin,
Little Orange Stripe Pear, Big Orange Stripe Pear. If you have a preference for one of the illustrated parents instead of the mix, let us know. Expect the
unexpected in the ultimate pepe pumpkin assortment Can be used as a fine summer squash when immature or a
winter squash at maturity and, of course, all your fall decoration needs! Quite a versatile assortment. (20
seeds).

OTHER SQUASH SPECIES

Luffa (Luffa ægyptiaca/
acutangula)

BLEND- Edible Luffa Mix
These produce great vining plants with
large yellow flowers and interesting long fruit that is harvested when
young before the interior becomes fibrous. There is some
diversity here and you should see ridged fruit and smooth fruit,
heirlooms and new asian varieties. All are considered to be fine
culinary varieties, not best for preparation of luffa sponge. (15 seeds)

BLEND- Edible Gourd Mix
Rampant vines produce night blooming
white flowers. Lagenaria gourds are much appreciated in China,
India and Italy for their tender firm light green fruit. There
are round kinds, oval 12" kinds, medium long and serpent shaped to over
3 ft. Although they can be cured for interesting utensils, all
the varieties in our blend are fine culinary quality. We try to include
many
forms of in your packet. (15 seeds)

BLEND- Sweet Pepper Blend
An amazing blend of many kinds of sweet peppers; bells, fryers, salad
kinds. We have dozens of different kinds in our seed bank.
Diversity without the heat. A packet of the Hot Pepper Blend
along with this one will give you about 50 different kinds of
peppers! (30 seeds)

F3 CROSS- Long Island Belle
A medium-small dark green bell shaped pepper ripens to red on a low sprawling
bush. We found this to be a stand out because of the productivity under poor growing conditions and the quality of the fruit left on the plant for extending periods. Still some
variabilty but I believe for folks that can't usually grow bell peppers this little beauty offers hope. Developed at Flanders Bay Farm. (20 seeds)

F3 CROSS- Little Bell
These are yellow or light green, ripening
to red. All mild to sweet. Productive and
vigorous peppers that originally came from Gypsy F1 crosses and are good for early yields of pickling, frying or
salad. We
have selected a small bell form. Compares favorably with "Gypsy" if you don't mind some variability.(30 seeds)

CV
- Chacha Sweet
A small, wedge shaped thick-fleshed sweet pepper that is best eaten when it turns bright red although it is fine in salads at any time. Similar to Hotcha which is our offering of a hot version. A very prolific plant. Developed on Flanders Bay Farm.(20 seeds)

CV-Mild Pepper- NuMex Sweet
Very mild, medium sized chile to 6
x2", often used when green. The basic variety ripens to a dark
green/reddish color, but other strains ripen to full red. They are one
of the most common chilies in the United States. Strung together and
dried, used to make ristras, ground for chili powder or paprika. (30
seeds)

BLEND- Sweet Italian Frying Pepper
Blend
These are used mostly as
frying
peppers, walls are thin to moderately
thick and consist of many long kinds that are dark green and ripen to
red. If any
heat, it will be very mild, less than 600 scoville units. Many very
sweet, fruity and flavorful especially at te red ripe stage. (30 seeds)

CV- Flanders Bay Frying Pepper
This is actually a japonica type selection from the dehybridization of Mexibell, a hybrid marketed as a hot bell pepper. We like these
pan seared (especially on the outdoor grill) with olive oil until the
skin begins to brown, salted and then eaten whole by holding the
stem. Friends can't get enough. Thin fleshed, moderately
ribbed and shaped like a
stubby finger. Mostly sweet and mild- but expect some variability. Used
young in the green stage is best.(20 seeds)

CV-
BLEND- Suave Mix (
Capsicum chinense x)
A mix of beautiful thin walled lantern shaped pepper with very little heat but
a wonderful fruity aroma and flavor. Ripens to bright red, yellow or orange 2" crumpled semi
bell shapes. This is a very late bearing
pepper (similar to other habanero types) so it requires an early start
or a long season. One of our favorites to freeze and crumble into
chili, stews, sauces and stir fry. The
taste of the habanero but with little of the heat. Wonderful warm, fruity,
fragrant and flavorful
in a bright red color. Developed from the University of New Mexico's terrific Suave Red Pepper. (10
seeds)

CV- Flanders Bay Purple HornThis is a kind of medium sized bull horn pepper, slightly creased but long
and wide. A good producer, not from Italy, it was developed from
an asian hybrid kind. Generally sweet and mild but mature
peppers may reveal a bit of spice and hotness especially around the seed cavity. Green to purple to red. A productive purple pepper for a nice splash of color and a "kick" in salads. (20 seeds)

CV- Cheiro Cross ( Capsicum chinense x)
What happens with a small 1 inch mostly oval (not cherry shape)
pepper from Brazil meets Suave Red. Mature bright cherry
red peppers are very mild and fragrant and absoltely of the finest flavor for a taste of the Caribbean in your pepper sauces. Needs an early start
since it bears only toward the end of the season. A winning
culinary variety developed at Flanders Bay Farm. (10 seeds)

Pepper (Capsicum annuum or C. chinense)
Hot peppers

BLEND- Hot Pepper Blend
A very diverse mixture of
dozens (yes, dozens) of varieties from our seed bank; some common, and
some quite rare. Often, each seed in the packet will produce a
different variety (every seed counts). You'll enjoy the
variety as you sample the
flavors and explore new uses. Remember to let a fruit completely
ripen on the plants that you like the best so that you can save the
seeds of the varieties that you enjoy. (30 seeds)

BLEND-Hot Cayenne Color
Blend
Just long, skinny cayenne peppers
of a number of varieties, each which ripen from green to one of these
colors: yellow, red, or orange. This
blend creates an attractive display in the garden or on your
farm-stand. Expect variation in plant habit and days to maturity.
Really beautiful but matures a bit late.(20 seeds)

CV- Red Cayenne (10 seeds)

CV- Orange Cayenne (10 seeds)

CV- Yellow Cayenne (10 seeds)

CV- Early Dwarf Cayenne
The very short plants (8")
produce many long narrow flavorful and medium hot red cayenne type
peppers which average 4" and often touch
the ground as they mature. The earliest of the cayenne-type
peppers. This is a liseed de-hybridization of an Asian variety. (20
seeds)

CV-Long Island Cayenne
A nice discovery among the Early Dwarf Cayennes; a wider, longer cayenne with the same early bearing productivity on dwarf plants. An improved cayenne with a hint of szechwan flavor and a chili sized fruit that has become a big hit on the farm. (20 seeds)

BLEND- Hot Italian Frying Blend
We have allowed these varieties
to cross with one another and then add more varieties as we find
them. All are long, somewhat skinny (under 2"), smooth or
wrinkled and generally have moderate flesh thickness which is ideal for
making fried peppers quickly. We like hot fried peppers in
sauces, on pizza, in omelets, with sausage and onions and in a pot of chili. Find your own
special strain that produces the best for you
in the seed blend we provide for you. (30 seeds)

BLEND- New Mexico Chili Blend
Large conical fruit (2" x 6-7")
often dried in ristras for later use ground into chili powder. When
green or mature can be used in sauces
acclaimed in the southwest. We make a wonderful hot simmering sauce from our tomatillos, these fresh green chilis, onions and chicken stock which goes great with just about anything. Our blend consists of a number of sweet and mild to
some like it hot varieties and crosses; many developed at the University of
New Mexico. Large productive plants. Very beautiful with ripe
fruit. (30 seeds)

CV-Yasufasa/Chicken Claw
Clusters of small thin candle-like peppers
stick
upward at the terminus of each stem, red fruit at maturity. (20 seeds)

CV- Hotcha Red
A small wedge-shaped thick flesh hot
pepper of very good flavor. Bright red when ripe. We have
been working with several
lines from various sources, this is a good
liseed selection. (20 seeds)

BLEND- Habanero Type Blend (Capsicum
chinense)
A mixture of caribbean
type peppers used in making flavorful sauces. These are thin
fleshed and consist of variations of scotch bonnet, habanero and
savinia types. Many colors and shapes, some variety in flavor but
mostly just very, very hot. (30
seeds)

CV-Lemon Hot Pepper (Capsicum baccatum)
Branching bush to 24". loaded
late in season with many green to bright yellow 2" long peppers which
are very hot but have citrus overtones (20 seeds).

BLEND- Ornamental Mix
If you enjoy ornamental peppers of various colors, shapes and sizes,
some with
purple foliage, short and tall, this is a nice moderately diverse assortment from our
collection. They are edible but usually hot and not of the best quality,
mostly used as for an
attractive planting in beds, planters or pots. Not grown
in isolation so haphazard crossing
should show good diversity. (30 seeds)

TOMATOES (Lycopersicon esculentum)

Tomatoes
Very large fruited kinds, beefsteak types and flavorful heirlooms

BLEND-Large Beefsteak Types Mixed
A blend of large fruited tomatoes, mostly the big red and pink squat tomatoes that I continue to select but also some
heirloom kinds I like because they are big, meaty and flavorful. Yes, Brandywine and Ruby Gold
selections are included. (30 seeds)

Tomatoes
Main Crop Standards-yellow, orange, red and pink, 2-3" round. These are really outperforming other tomatoes I hear from the chatter of the local gardening circles. They do for us and that is why we keep selecting out the best. Great
all-purpose medium sized slicing tomatoes. We grow separate
patches of red, pink and golden fruited tomatoes and select each color
type so that you can enjoy a long harvest of smooth, round fruit.
Yes, there will be variation and that will allow you a greater chance
to discover the tomato that performs best in your garden and has the
qualities that you want. Save the seed of your best
performers. Indeterminant for caging or ground culture.

BLEND: Main Crop Standard Mix
Medium size to large slicers, mostly indeterminate plants which are
productive. Yellows, Oranges, Reds, Pinks and
Crimsons are blended together. These days, I spend most of my time with tomatoes with this tried and true group of my favorites. (30 seeds)

BLEND: Gold Standards
Bright shades of yellow and
orange fruit on indeterminate plants that bear over a long summer. (20 seeds)

BLEND: Zebra Mix
A mix of two favorite modern tomatoes, Tom Wagner's Green
Zebra and
Thompson and Morgan's Tigerella (Mr. Stripey). No, they're not heirlooms but they are great salad
tomatoes, about 2-3
inches in size; tangy, flavorful and appealing. Breeder, Tom Wagner who
developed "Green Zebra" in the 1980's calls these kinds of tomatoes "Heirlooms by Descent (ABD's), Tom writes on his blog on breeding,"tater-mater" ,“Heirloom by Descent” is my way of saying, I have a great respect for the varieties of yesteryear, be it tomatoes or potatoes in my case; however, I am asking for your understanding, yea, encouragement for taking our heritage to the next level of treasured living things: Seeds of descendancies!" Green Zebra has certainly become one of America's most favorite tomatoes and Tom should feel a great satisfaction for that. We urge you to visit his website and support his work. (30
seeds)

Tomatoes
Saladette or Cluster Types

BLEND- Cluster Tomatoes Mixed
These are 2 inch tomatoes in yellow, orange and red colors borne in
trusses and developed for greenhouse culture originally. All F2
and F3 hybrid indeterminates on the road to open
pollinated, field strains. Attractive but most are not
particularly flavorful. Initial work at FBF;
requires additional work. (30
seeds)

Tomatoes
Determinate Small Fruited Kinds

CV: Raymond's Canada Extra Early
A small tomato on a compact determinate normal leaf plant, sort of like
Sub Arctic
Maxi but earlier to fruit, larger fruit, better tasting, more
productive over a longer period and resistant
to early blight. We received this tomato from collector
Raymond
Traitt from Montreal, Canada. Raymond was a retired postal worker
who
lived in an apartment. While he didn't have room to grow the
tomatoes, he embarked on a personal crusade to rescue a large number of
Canadian bred varieties when he saw the need. (20 seeds)

Tomatoes
Cherry and Cherry-Plum Types

BLEND- Miniature Tomatoes Mixed
Many different kinds, round, oval, plums and pears, many colors and
flavors, a very diverse blend of small cocktail tomatoes from 1/4" to
1". There are dozens of varieties here some from my other seed saving buddies. Includes Me Tarzan and Be My Baby Gene Pool. Usually very productive,
mostly indeterminate growth. (30
seeds)

SELECTIONS: FBF Miniature Sweet
Tomatoes
Sweet cherry and grape tomatoes that started as hybrids but have stabilized at Flanders Bay Farm to produce a terrific assortment of the sweetest of the
small round cherry and grape/plum kinds.
Sustainable non hybrid high brix tomatoes in red, orange and pink. Various colors.
Sprawling vines can be caged or staked. These vines are real troopers and are among the most disease resistant tomatoes we have produced. They will bear non-stop all season long. We use them in salads and in sauces and since we grow them in the front garden, they produce an endless snacking tomato for visitors.(30
seeds)

Dwarf Champion Types
Tomatoes- HR trait, heavy stem, rugose foliage plants resemble bonsai
and are attractive in pots and planters. When they produce fruit
they should be staked. Most always dwarf and compact plants but
can become overloaded with fruit. Some new indeterminate genetics
(mostly unintentional) have given these the ability to bear over a
longer period.

BLEND- Dwarf Champion Mix
This mix of three or four different
kinds will produce small mostly 1 1/2- 2 inch salad tomatoes in red,
orange, yellow, pink and green colors. This group is related to the
"Stakeless or Champion Types" popular in the late 1800's and now known
as patio type tomatoes. The
plants have thick main stems, dark green rugose foliage and will grow
to about 20" or so. Good for patio or tub culture, we think a
stake is in order to keep the plants which become loaded with tomatoes
from tipping over. Look for oddities in color and fruit
shape since these are known outcrossers which we
encourage. (20
seeds)

SELECTION- Red Bullet
An outcross selected and named by Bill Jeffers
from Dwarf Champion Mix. Bill sent us some seed which we grew out
and found that the fruit is variable from distinct cone-shape to
oval. One of the "ramblings" has a photo that shows the
characteristic foliage of Dwarf Patio
Tomatoes. Red Bullet is one of the most prolific bearers.
They began
producing in July and were still going in October. That is quite
unusual for this kind of tomato. Without Bill's sharp eye, this novel
trait could have been lost. (10 seeds)

BLEND-Long Island Dwarfs Mix
Small red, yellow and pink cherry tomatoes on very dwarf 12",
branching plants, stocky stem, dark rugose foliage, possible basket or
tub culture specimen. I presume that because we were early collectors of this group of tomatoes and have maintained a large collection through the years at Long Island Seed people began to call them the "Long Island Dwarfs"!(20
seeds)

Tomatoes
Currant and Currant Crosses (Lycopersicon
pimpinellifolium)

HEIRLOOM- Alberto's Currant
This is one of the true currant tomatoes, the world's smallest tomato.
Pea sized. More primitive than others, it's fruit shatters and falls to
the ground when ripe or near ripe. Crunchy in salads imparts a great
texture but not sweet or flavorful. We are developing harvest
techniques that take advantage of the shattering characteristic since
currant tomatoes are tedious to harvest. (10
seeds)

BLEND- Currant Crosses: All
Colors
A mixture of yellow, orange, near white, pink and red currant types
that are small cherry size (less than a half inch and smaller).
Crunchy, variable in flavor, all good salad types, some
better than others. (30
seeds)

BLEND- Most Excellent Red and
Yellow Currant
A mix of our finest sweet yellow and sweet red currants. These
have current genetics but actually currant/cherry crosses and are not pure currant tomatoes. Among the best of the
flavorful kinds. (30
seeds)

Eggplant: (Solanum melongena)

BLEND-Eggplant Mix
Interesting mix of a dozen kinds, quality culinary kinds from Europe,
America and the Orient. White, purple, pink, green, striped, long and
round kinds. Save the best performers to work on developing your
own. (30
seeds)

Physalis and other Solenaceae

Husk Cherry - (P. pruinosa)

CV- Long Island Ground Cherry
Self sowing ground cherry that
produces well branched bushes to 20", husks turn green to tan and drop,
the firm yellow fruit inside are sweet with what most agree is a
refreshing pineapple flavor. Produces earlier if you start the seeds
indoors like tomatoes 4 weeks prior to the last spring frost date and
then wait another two weeks before you transplant into a warm soil. (30
seeds)

Tomatillo - (P. ixocarpa)

BLEND-Tomatillo Mix
Seeds collected from the best of our farm trials; included
are flavorful little green tomatillos, medium sized sweet yellow kinds
and very large green kinds and one or two purple types. We enjoy
them chopped up into
salsa. Folks often comment about the rampant vining plants of
some varieties with the inflated balloon-like husks. Harvest when
husks start to dry and lose green color. The ripe fruit generally will
drop. (30 seeds)

Solenaceae

Garden Nightshades

CV- Garden Huckleberry (Solanum
nigrum var. melanocerasum)
Sure, it's Black Nightshade. Does it make us feel unethical
distributing seed of it? Maybe, a little. But many
folks tell us how much they enjoy this edible variety of black
nightshade for it's big berries produced in piefuls by sprawling plants
when cooked with a squeeze of lemon, a handful of sugar and a pinch of
baking soda. Raw? I didn't become sick but I certainly
didn't enjoy these berries. Call me a food snob, I live for real
huckleberries. We have some seed from a past crop. (50 seeds)

CV- Burbank Sunberry (Solanum
burbankii)
Historically interesting and a controvertial plant said to be an
interspecies nightshade hybrid developed by Luther Burbank. The
Sunberry has a very similar
taste to the Chichiquelite. We have some seed from a past seedcrop. (50 seeds)

CV- Chichiberry (Chichiquelite)
(Solanum nigrum var. guineense)
The small, pleasant flavored nightshade fruits have some fruitiness and
an odd complexity fresh off the plant. Probably Solanum nigrum var. guineense - L.
from western Africa but introduced to Mexico. This is presumed to
be one of the parents of Luther Burbank's Sunberry. The berries
of the Chichiquelite have been used for pies, cobblers, sweet preserves
and even wines. Six plants kept us in mock blueberry pies all summer. I like real blueberries but my pie-eating guests thought they were just fine. No one became sick...who would think.
(50 seeds)

Chinese Wolfberry/Goji

CV- Mixed Wolfberry (Lycium spp)
Thanks to John Farina (a modern day Nikolai Vavilov) and his treks in search of Goji Berry diversity, we again have some extra seed to share with those who are interested in selecting from this diverse material from many sources. The former batch of seed has been distributed to many project members and we have a new batch of seed from John's visits to Chinatown and also from our own berries.
Our first group of plants in the field is showing quite a bit of diversity and are beginning to produce berries, now in year four of the project. They germinate like tomato seed but produce weak seedlings that need a lot of care until the second year when they become very robust. (50 seeds)

Solanaceae: Tobaccum

MIXED: Tobacco- Many Kinds(Nicotiana tobaccum)
Sent to me by Alan Bishop who is a young and energetic farmer-breeder in Southern Indiana. Why is it that I am so fascinated with tobacco that this non smoker grows it year after year? It's a magnificent plant with an incredible history! Alan Bishop explains it better than I could. See "Alan's Blog 'Tobacco' " Alan pays homage to past generations of tobacco farmers with this "new" tobacco variety as well as his interest in keeping traditional tobacco processing methods alive. Breeder Seeds. A very diverse assortment which looks amazing in the garden. (100 seeds)

Tobacco- Tobaccum rustica
NATIVE: Rustica

Tobacco of the Native Americans; different species than commercial tobacco; this is a short plant with bell-shaped greenish flowers. High in nicotine; toxic. (75 seeds)

Family: Martyniaceae

sorry, not this year. Check Native Seed Search in Tuscon as a source.

Thank you for your interest in our seeds!
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